Sir, ready to count, sir!

t evil grin

Fine. whatever you wakkos. I will post the proposal and link to ballot in Press in 40 min.

ita. please to close this thread now.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Voting is now open on the following proposals. Voting will close 4/22/03 12:00 am EDT.

PROPOSAL: The following procedure will be in place for taking action for unacceptable behaviour.

1. A user-complainant will try to resolve the complaint on-thread. If unsuccessful,
2. A user-complainant (does not need to be same person) will post in-thread that it's time to meet in Bureaucracy. In Bureaucracy, user-complainant will outline the complaint with linky citations, and request an Action.
3. At least 10 other users in 48 hours second the need for an Action. If 10 other users do not complain within the 48 hour period, no complaint can be made again about that particular incident, unless it is being used to illustrate, with others, a pattern of demon-like behaviour.
4. As soon as the request for action receives 10 seconds, Stompy sets forth Action.

Yes/No

PROPOSAL: Warnings will be in effect for four months. After four months, the slate is wiped clean.

Yes/No

PROPOSAL: A Warning will be notified over email, in the thread of incident, and in Bureaucracy. A Suspension will be notified over email and in Bureaucracy. A Ban will be notified by email and in Press.

Yes/No

Voting is here .

From Deena:

It's after 12 a.m. EDT and the results are in:

94 buffistas voted; 76 ballots were received within the first 24 hours.

PROPOSAL: The following procedure will be in place for taking action for unacceptable behaviour.

86 Yes
7 No
1 No Preference

PROPOSAL: Warnings will be in effect for four months. After four months, the slate is wiped clean.

71 Yes
12 No
11 No Preference

PROPOSAL: A Warning will be notified over email, in the thread of incident, and in Bureaucracy. A Suspension will be notified over email and in Bureaucracy. A Ban will be notified by email and in Press.

82 Yes
6 No
6 No Preference

I'd say this is a picture-perfect example of a landslide.

I came here for an argument.

Proposal: That the community, if it is practical to code, allow individual threads to be designated, "Accessible only to members of the community," and restrict access to those threads only to registered users. Any such threads to be so designated shall be determined by separate proposal and vote. If the proposal passes, the coding of this feature shall be added to the features request list.

I'm against this proposal. I think that it's far too late in the development of this community to make a major change like requiring all lurkers to register.

Also I don't believe it will accomplish what people are hoping it will. There's no screening process to our registration. Anyone with a valid email address can become a member. So if a banned poster or a lurker or someone who's out to cause trouble wants to read the posts, they can. It just takes a minute or two for them to have access to it.

The two threads that have been proposed so far are B'cracy and Bitches. I take it the reason for this is to stop unregistered people from reading the posts and possibly causing problems for members--which has happened.

I don't agree with the proposal, I don't see what good it will really do. Yes, we can lock the threads for member only reading but that doesn't stop anyone from registering and then lurking and still causing problems for members.

If people really wanted to they could register, find out what information they wanted to and use it.

Then there would be an indication that the harasser was a registered user but there would be no way to tell how long the harasser had been a registered member and with a lurker I'm not sure how anyone could trace who this person is.

So I don't really see how members locking threads would help.

Bitterchick took the words right out of my mouth. Give 'em back!

And it may even encourage trolls to re-register just to see what's in the "locked" threads. I see no positives and only negatives.